Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is making it clear he disagrees with the Alberta separatist movement ahead of a byelection next month. [CityNews]

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to ministers on Monday asking them to find savings of 7.5 per cent in their budgets starting next spring. [Global]

Donald Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russian territory, even asking Volodymyr Zelenskyy whether he could strike Moscow if the US provided long-range weapons, according to people briefed on the discussions. The conversation, which took place during the July 4 call between the US and Ukrainian leaders, marks a sharp departure from Trump’s previous stance on Russia’s war and his campaign promise to end US involvement in foreign conflicts. [FT]

″To be free in this world we must be feared. To be feared we must be powerful,'' the French president said in announcing billions in new military spending. [Global]

The Trump Administration has asked Congress to rescind funds for NPR/PBS and Foreign aid. Congress has until the end of the week to approve the cuts. [NPR]

Journalism practitioners rarely apply research to their practice, and often decline to supply their time to support research. These issues indicate a research-practice gap in journalism. Yet efforts to characterize the gap are in their infancy. This study uses 16 semi-structured interviews with US journalism practitioners to understand, first, how practitioners characterize the applicability of research to their work; and second, how they describe the nature of and reasons for the research-practice gap in journalism. We applied the framework of institutional logics to understand the conflicts that might contribute to the gap at the intra-organizational and inter-organizational levels. The study found that journalists value the evidence research gives them, but do not see research as essential to their work. Participants identified three types of research-practice gaps corresponding to three stages in the research process: 1) researchers asking the wrong questions, 2) researchers communicating their findings poorly, and 3) institutional barriers keeping research from being applied in the newsroom. [Journalism]

When Apple released iOS 15 in 2021, the operating system brought a hidden feature to your iPhone called Background Sounds. It allows you to turn your iPhone into a white noise machine, and you can play these sounds by themselves or under any podcast, music or video streaming app. [CNET]